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The Software category is applied to posts about using, reviewing and writing software. Would be of most interest to those doing similar things. Non-geeks may wish to peruse other categories.

MySQL 5.1 - General Release at last!

MySQL 5.1.30 is released - the first general release (non-beta).

Audience:

MySQL users

Published:

Thursday, 27th November 2008

Open Source MIDI Control Surface

I am in the process of designing a simple MIDI control surface, all design information to be released under a Creative Commons license.

Audience:

Anyone interested in building their own simple MIDI control surface, for fun or profit.

Published:

Thursday, 27th November 2008;
last updated on Friday, 28th November 2008

Web Accessibility Techniques workshop in Adelaide on 20 November 2008

Vision Australia is running their popular Web Accessibility Techniques workshop in Adelaide on 20 November 2008.

Audience:

web-development team leaders; corporate communications professionals; content authors; web programmers; web application developers; web designer; web contract managers

sql-o-matic

This is about the fourth generation of this programme that I have been using over the last few years to generate SQL and Perl code based on a MySQL database schema. The idea behind this is much repetitive coding can be eliminated - the ouput of this programme can be tweaked/corrected and then cut and pasted into an application.

Audience:

Perl coders

Published:

Tuesday, 16th September 2008

Foxy Add-Ons: Tab Mix Plus

Tab Mix Plus is a Firefox extension that allows enhanced control over tabbed browsing.

Audience:

Firefox users.

Published:

Saturday, 19th April 2008

The Solstice Clock - Part 1

What is a clock? What is a calendar? How can one do the job of the other? In this series of articles, Smiffy describes a project in which an everyday quartz clock is converted into a solar calendar - the Solstice Clock.

Audience:

Those interested in time and timekeeping, calendars, astronomy, microcontrollers and electronics projects.

Published:

Tuesday, 8th April 2008

VMware - No Developer Should Be Without It

After some ten years since being told about the joys of VMware virtualisation, Smiffy finally gives it a go and wonders how he ever coped before.

Audience:

Anyone who has to work with more than one operating system.

Sun to buy MySQL

Sun Microsystems announces that it is going to buy MySQL AB. That's rather exciting.

Audience:

IT industry, users of Sun and MySQL products.

Published:

Friday, 18th January 2008;
last updated on Sunday, 10th February 2008

Perl 5.10 Now Available

Smiffy rejoices at the announcement that Perl 5.10 has been released and finally has a switch statement.

Published:

Thursday, 20th December 2007

Screen Size Tracker

Smiffy presents a small piece of PHP and JavaScript code that can record the screen and window sizes of visitors to a web site. Data is written to a MySQL database.

Published:

Wednesday, 12th December 2007